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Art & design Talks & events Tours & public spaces

Our Time on Earth Public Programme

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Our public programme will give you the opportunity to engage in the conversation around the climate emergency while learning more about the contributors of the exhibition.

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Cinema

SAFAR Film Festival

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The only UK festival dedicated to cinema from the Arab world, this year's theme invites you to go back to the very essence of filmmaking: storytelling. 

two people looking at a projection of the ocean
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Art & design

Our Time on Earth Weekender Programme

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The Barbican presents a weekend of activities taking place across the centre, inspired by Our Time on Earth, which runs until 29 August.

Hereditary
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Cinema

Post-Horror Summer Nights

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Emerging partly as a reaction to the success of big budget horror films, a different style crawled out of the mid-2010s, rejecting worn tropes in favour of shocking subversion and existential dread.

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Cinema

Outdoor Cinema

Past event

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This summer, come along to a week of open-air screenings, all set within our spectacular architecture.

Outdoor Cinema at the Barbica
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Art & design Cinema Contemporary music Theatre & dance

Outdoor Cinema

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This summer, come along to a week of spectacular open-air screenings full of fantasy, adventure and spectacular environments. 

Neil Hannon leadning on a statue of an angel
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Contemporary music

Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time: 30 Years of The Divine Comedy

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Neil Hannon celebrates 30 years as The Divine Comedy – performing ten of his records in full across a five-night residency.

Black and white photo of Allan Clayton
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Classical music

Barbican Presents

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Barbican Presents brings some of the greatest international classical artists, orchestras and ensembles to London, in a stimulating and eclectic mix of classical, contemporary, and Baroque music.

Photo of Sir Simon Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the Barbican Hall
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra 2022–23 Multibuy

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You can save with our London Symphony Orchestra Multibuy.

Sakari Oramo 2018 conducting smiling on stage
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra Multibuy Sep 2022–Jan 2023

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You can save with our BBC Symphony Orchestra Multibuy.